BRENT BUELL is a
producer, director and novelist. He is lead producer of New York’s first
big hip-hop musical FREEDOM! by Patrick Blake starring Maino
(Fall 2014). In the spring of 2014 he will direct Josh Rivedal’s comedy, The
Gospel According to Josh.

He has taken the directorial helm on work including Iyaba Ibo Mandingo’s unFRAMED;
From Sing Sing to Broadway, which premiered at Playwrights
Horizons in NYC; Rosemary Hester’s You Can’t Leave That There;
Wood Bars, which he wrote with Miguel Valentin for the opening
of John Buffalo Mailer and Tom Kail’s Back House Productions; his comedy The
Gem Exchange, and his Las Vegas spectacular, Undone Divas.
He wrote and directed The Terrors of Teri, a film for Ohio
University, and Goddess Films tapped him to direct its new comedy Moses
(selected for the 2011 Art of Brooklyn Film Festival). For ten years, Buell
volunteered with the non-profit organization Rehabilitation Through the
Arts, directing theater in New York’s maximum-security prisons. There his
productions of plays, ranging from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men
to three original works by prisoners, have earned praise from critics,
including from The New York Times. His Breakin’ the Mummy’s
Code premiered at Sing Sing and was the subject of a feature article
in Esquire by bestselling author, John Richardson. His experiences
provided the basis for his chapter “Drama in the Big House” in the book Performing
New Lives, Prison Theater by Jonathan Shailor.

An accomplished actor, Buell has appeared in classic roles from Shakespeare
and Ibsen to Moliere and Strindberg, and on the big screen in both the hit
comedy Grand Opening and the controversial thriller Al
Qarem. He is a story coach with The MOTH Theatre.

His outrageous political action adventure, Rapturous, is
available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or your local bookseller.